Origami-Kids is a web site specifically for plane and boat lovers and is organised neatly to display over 50 models of gliders,
hunters, vortexes, tumbling planes and boats. Each paper model is pictured in detail, along with instructions on how to make them fly. The categories mentioned above are
according to the type of planes — for e.g., hunters would fly fast whereas gliders would cover long distance by staying afloat in the air for longer.

viernes, 7 de octubre de 2016

The Paper Airplane Guy, shows How to fold the world record paper airplane

The Paper Airplane Guy, shows How to fold the world record paper airplane

The farthest flight by a paper aircraft is 69.14 meters (226 feet 10 inches), achieved by Joe Ayoob and aircraft designer John M. Collins (both USA), at McClellan Air Force Base, in North Highlands, California, USA on 26 February 2012. The plane was constructed from a single sheet of uncut A4 paper. Joe Ayoob flew the aircraft designed by John M. Collins.

On Feb 26, 2012, John Collins and Joe Ayoob broke the Guinness World Record for paper aircraft distance, flying an aerodynamic paper airplane a whopping 226 feet, 10 inches (69.14 meters). You can see How to fold this plane here.

The “Paper Airplane Guy” John Collins, studied aerodynamics and origami in a quest to design the world’s most sophisticated paper projectiles. His record-breaking plane flew 226 feet. To Collins, paper airplanes aren’t just for making a ruckus in class, they can teach us a lot about science. Buuuut class disruption is an added bonus.

So, about all those paper airplanes you folded in class when you were supposed to be taking notes: Maybe you should’ve kept at it. Record-setting paper airplane pro John Collins contends that a few strategic folds of paper could really take you places. His lifelong interest in paper airplanes has evolved from playing with a simple child’s toy to a career as a professional speaker who gets crowds excited about the science and discovery behind folded paper.

Collins’ world record-setting design is named for his wife Susanne, and consists of only eight folds. Shortly after conquering the world record for paper aircraft distance. Collins shared the instructions for the paper airplane online and upped the ante by offering a $1,000 prize to anyone who could use the design to officially break his Guinness World Record.

Through trial and error, he’s also come up with designs that return to the thrower like a boomerang, exhibit incredible hang times or fly straight as an arrow, as he explains in the Great Big Story video at the top of this article.

What’s so simple about paper airplanes? Well, just about everything — and nothing. These paradoxical paper flyers can be constructed in seconds, and help those who make them develop three-dimensional thinking and fine motor skills along the way. Collins believes that building a paper airplane is a crucial entry point into “thinking like a scientist.”

The aerodynamic forces that give airplanes — both actual life-size planes and little paper models — lift is the same, and examining the “how” and “why” of paper airplanes can help us better understand flight as a whole. In fact, paper airplanes were crucial in developing the first real-life airplanes because they could be tested in a much more economical way than person-sized prototypes. Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance artist and inventor who dreamed of bringing a flying machine to life, relied on paper models to test his ideas.
Source: howstuffworks-com

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Origami Kids is specifically for plane and boat lovers and is organised neatly to display over 50 models of gliders, hunters, vortexes, tumbling paper planes and origami boats. Each paper model is pictured in detail, along with instructions on how to make them fly. The categories mentioned above are according to the type of planes — for e.g., hunters would fly fast whereas gliders would cover long distance by staying afloat in the air for longer.

Select an airplane to view its folding instructions which appear as animation. The instructions are displayed with a starting paper on the left, folds or creases to be made are animated in the middle, and the resultant shape is presented on the right. At the bottom, there are buttons to for 'Next' and 'Back' to move to required steps.

While creating these planes with standard letter or A4 sized pages (used for printouts and photocopies), also read user comments on how they found the planes. One of the interesting sections present here is 'Flight Simulators'. These are Flash games allowing paper plane flights in different conditions such as height, speed and angle, etc. Next section worth taking a look at is 'Origami Flowers' with models such as popcorn cup, bang (noise creator), turtle, duck and bat, etc. To further improvise these origami models, coloured papers and markers can be used as well.